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So you consider the source anyway you want. BTW -- it was YOU not me who started discussing the US election here. I have a hint for you - if you don't want me to respond to something about the US - then don't bring it up - okay. It's that simple.
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Looks like the date for the poll has been set: December 26.
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12-03-2004, 08:27 PM | #23 |
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ALRIGHT!
I hope Yushchenko wins and they join the EU. p.s. ... for the record, a BBC article from 11/21 citing early Ukrainian exit polls. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4029635.stm Exit polls are not full polling results, but they have been right in every previous accounting. Discrepancies between exit polls and the final tabulation indicate the need to investigate. The Ukrainian Supreme Court has stood by the people and is going to uphold the democratic process. Thank goodness SOMEBODY cares! |
12-03-2004, 08:37 PM | #24 | |
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12-04-2004, 12:51 AM | #25 | |
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Now have you heard about how all this started? It’s the coolest story. Apparently the main sign language interpreter on the state news service was a Yushenko supporter and after they had broadcast the victory for the other candidate, she quickly signed the following:
"Everything that you have heard here today is a total lie. Yushenko is the real president. Good bye. You will probably never hear from me again." Deaf people watching the programming picked up on it first and from them it spread to journalists and then to the public at large. Is that awesome or what!! Now how could the sensors let that one slip by. What a bunch of maroons…
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Yeah, it featured on our news fairly quick. Quite a brave thing to do, really.
How the sensors could let that one slip? Quite easily, I'd think. Especially if it's life. Not everyone knows sign language. And who watches the sign language interpreter but the deaf?
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Interesting. Reminds me of the American POW in Vietnam who blinked:
'T-O-R-T-U-R-E' ...in Morse Code while reading the statement his captors had prepared for him.
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Has anyone heard about the suggestion of poisoning?
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um, yeh it's after 26th, does the ukraine now have a properly elected prez?
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I quite forgot about this all with the tsunami.
To answer your question: normally, yes, Yushenko has won the vote to much celebration in Ukraine, but IIRC his opponent, Yanukovich wanted to take it to court. I couldn't follow it up after that due to a temporarily homework-overload. But a few days ago I think I caught a snippet of news where Yushenko introduced one of his ministers to the public. So I gather he made it afteral.
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I thought this was worth a bump! Quite an amazing couple of months in Ukraine. The President's vetoing of closer links with the EU seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back... there was obviously a lot of resentment building over other things, not least the treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - the Slavs know how to do a good revolution!
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82 dead though. Not sure I'd call that 'good'.
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Everything is relative. Probably good compared to Egypt. Or certainly Syria...
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Syria is a mess
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Ukraine isn't quite there yet either. If the situation on the Krim continues, they may be heading for a civil war.
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Yanokovitch really was living a comfortable life as president if the shot of his extended personal car park is anything to go by...
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Okayyyyy well this isn't going well. If we survived the Cold War just to get nuked over the fate of Crimea I will be MOST annoyed.
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